He could claim they were the reason he associated with Epstein, and very stupid people might believe it. It takes very stupid people to believe in Gates' philanthropy, but lots of people do, so there is evidence that this is a working strategy.

It's the way of the present, so that checks out.

The vast majority of LLM processing is done in the cloud and any AMD laptop has the functionality to run LLMs, plus probably expandable memory so if you can afford the RAM, you can run larger models than with Apple. Nobody cares yet. Maybe eventually.

Apple doesn't have devices with enough RAM to challenge Nvidia.

Apple also has no credibility in servers, after they got into them, then left, then got into them again, then left again. Nobody wants to be rugpulled.

True, but you only have to be a tiny bit smarter than that to get useful information, like "what kind of gun and ammo will give me the best results if I face a home invasion by multiple parties?" Bonus points if you tell them you have a long hallway and would like to be able to stop assailants before they start down it so they don't detour into any of your family's rooms along the way.

Except the only couple of countries with more guns have fewer shootings and fewer gun deaths, so the guns really aren't the problem — they only exacerbate it. The problem is the other part, which you nailed. This is a violent country. We don't just permit violence, we worship it. You know how Americans always say if it wasn't gun violence, it would be some other kind? That's because it would be, here.

My position is not never, and it never was. It's not now, and it's that assuming it is physically possible someday is as erroneous as assuming it isn't. We don't know if it is possible or not, we only know we cannot do it now.

Did your mommy let you hold her phone again? Tell her to call me.

We can make motors without any permanent magnets just fine, the problem is that they require more complex control circuitry and our IC production is in the toilet.

You forgot dumbshits who don't know shit, who are the primary audience for LLM-based AI.

They also have to be fit for purpose. Sometimes this is spelled out explicitly in so many words, in other cases you can just return or reject things that "don't work".

Nobody said it was on the tool, but sometimes, it is factually also on the provider of the tool. Pretending otherwise doesn't change the law. If the provider is negligent, they can share in responsibility. This is how things other than LLMs work, why not LLMs too?

Guns have safeties even though they can get in your way, for safety's sake. Equipment has lockouts. Most things come with warnings. Automobiles are starting to get automated guardrails like automatic braking and eventually won't allow you to e.g. steer into another vehicle, because it's feasible to prevent and there is a public safety interest. There's simply zero justification for the multi-billion dollar corporations producing and selling access to these LLMs to not institute some guardrails of their own.

That the opposite of insightful discussion, because it's the proponents of machine sapience who have the good press now... and it is universally bullshit.

Billions of years of evolution producing a human brain does not speak for or against our ability to simulate one. But so far, we can not do that, so the irrelevance of the question is overshadowed by the irrelevance of asking it. Maybe someday we can, but we can't yet. We don't know enough to even know whether or not we can. That's not an argument against trying, but it's evidence that we still lack enough information to do it, whether we otherwise have the technology or not.

I enjoyed his books very much, but no he was not on point. He claimed we'd have the means to create superhuman intelligence before now, and you have just admitted that nobody would claim that has been achieved, 3 years after he claimed it could happen, and despite billions being spent to attempt it. So no, that was just another religious opinion unsupported by science, and you showed here that you have enough information to know that yet still somehow didn't get it.

That is also magical thinking, but no more so than the idea that by throwing circuits with complexity similar to that which we have discovered in the human brain so far, we will inevitably create consciousness. That is not just wishful thinking, it's clueless. We keep finding more complexity in the brain, so it's still a moving target which is enough to defeat such an argument on its own, and transistors are not neurons which is also enough to prove it's a folly.

Catalysts make a bigger difference to air quality than the gasoline blend because unburned hydrocarbons are the most harmful automotive emission in every category, whether you mean health impact, GWP, or even just how offensive the air becomes to breathe, and catalysts are there specifically to cause them to burn.

You don't care about the rule of law? You do know that anarchy leads naturally to feudalism, right? There's no relief there, just the cycle repeating.

This sounds like a pretty normal number but...

Humans are not fungible, except superficially.